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terms with themselves and the captain who 

 had brought them over ; for he soon after 

 joined them, and with him, after certain 

 libations, they walked quietly away. 



But a man may run more risks in a 

 civilized society even as it is called than 

 when in the company of savages, as the 

 following anecdote will shew. One evening 

 in the same room, I had been giving my 

 opinion freely upon a certain subject, with- 

 out observing the disapprobation of a gentle- 

 man to whom my back was turned, and the 

 signs and winks of the gentlemen in the 

 same box to whom I was addressing myself 

 failed to make me understand my danger. 

 Warming with the subject, I animadverted 

 strongly, and no doubt indiscreetly, on the 

 conduct of certain inhabitants of a certain 

 portion of the empire. This called forth his 

 intense indignation. Rising from his seat, 

 he came towards the table at which I was 

 sitting, and putting both his hands upon it, 

 said, in a most solemn tone, that he would 



